Vouksh Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 well, the other day my dad needed a mac to recover a HDD for a local printing/design company after it had crashed. They didn't have one to spare, so I mentioned OSX86 to my dad. He gave me the green light to try it on our IBM Thinkpad A31. I grabbed my GParted livecd and resized the partition and created a temporary FAT32 partition to install OSX on. After that was done, I burned a copy of JAS 10.4.8 (turns out it was actually 10.4.7, but I degress) and popped it in the laptop. I installed it without a hitch. So I take the DVD out and boot the laptop back up. Went through the startup screen with no problems, but I was then slapped in the face by a seriously screwed up screen. white & green vertical bars is all I saw. After doing some searching, I found a solution to try. I booted into single-user mode (kernel flag -s) and mounted the drive, and ran the command: $ rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/ATI* I then rebooted normally and viola, I had proper video. Not only video, but SOUND, and my USB mouse worked, as well as internal network (wired) and my on-board mouse, and (of course) my keyboard, and also my built-in screen worked. The only thing that didn't work was my wireless network. So I grabbed a decent-lengthed cable and hooked it up. After doing a lot of searching, I finally gave up. I had even bought a WPC54GS and tossed out my WPC54G v.2, with no success. After checking dmesg (# sudo dmesg | grep IOCard*) I found that it couldn't start my PCMCIA bus. I finally said screw it and wanted to start with fresh drivers. I grabbed my OSX86 Install DVD and booted off of it and told it to do an upgrade. After letting it go through that, I booted back into my install and what do you know? Wireless (after editing /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211[w/e the rest is]/Contents/Plugins/Apple[hit tab]/Info.plist with my card's device ID-thing), and video (minus QE/CI). pictures of my laptop running OSX: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42972-thinkpad-a31-success-story/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silthrim Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 If only we were all that lucky $ rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/ATI* I'm gonna try this on my laptop and see what happens because I have the same problem as you with the vertical bars. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42972-thinkpad-a31-success-story/#findComment-326601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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